Raj Gill

I give it a few months before he starts calls for putting lead back in fuel

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

I can't say I'm a fan of Streeting but this is excellent from him and is exactly what we need more of from all decent MPs and especially from Labour

The largest number of perpetrators of sexual violence in the UK are white men. Any attempt to place blame squarely on racialised groups is not only racist, but it also obscures the systemic problem of men’s violence against women (within homes, which is the most dangerous place for women).

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.

And if you have had a "Nazi phase" you have no right to seek public office. The only political role you might reasonably take is that of de-radicalisation to help undo a modicum of the hatred that once defined you.

This seems shambolic interviewing from Peston. He should know what the policy is.

Lam does not set out her policy honestly. (Her second example is highly evasive & sets out a principle - you've broken the conditions you came on - that she breaches when stripping ILR)

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Could a future of fascism be upon us?

A devastating wake-up call from @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

I shouldn't even know who Jess Gill is but if people keep at it she'll have started and sold a online magazine for half a billion and be managing director of Sky News within 5 years

My least favourite thing about social media is when a dipshit says something patently untrue or offensive and instead of ignoring it everyone engages with it with counterpoints which gives the dipshit a significant amount more exposure than otherwise.

I also think our written language is gayer too; pop in a U for the flamboyance, why not?

We are told this regularly, usually by each other

Wait are only dogs meant to have that? Shit.

Helpful hack if they refuse to investigate, just say the thief shouted something in support of PA whilst cycling away.

I know there’s a cultural tendency online for people to tack towards disagreement with those who they find distasteful - a kind of vanity of small differences thing - but I really think that with stuff like this it’s worth everyone trying to get over themselves and call it what it is.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.

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2/4 It is wrong to say every pro-Palestine protester is antisemitic, in fact it's a malicious lie

It's also a malicious lie to say there are no antisemitic elements at these protests - I've seen them week after week after week

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1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact

Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it

Didn't know Tony Soprano used to work for the tfl

Rachel Reeves braced for huge hole in UK public finances after productivity downgrade New OBR forecasts set to spark fierce dispute between Labour and Conservatives

Invest in the arts.

Buy-to-let businesses have become the largest single type of business in the UK this is why we are not productive, we are cannibalising ourselves.
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In my city the gurdwaras organise a daily street langar in the city centre for the homeless

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK

Over 10 years old, but very much worth reading today.

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They're also taking the poo and dumping both in our rivers

“Nigel Farage is wrong in principle, his approach is racist, and we oppose it”

“Nigel Farage is right on immigration, but he doesn’t have the skill or experience to deliver his plans”

At some point, the government has to pick *one* of these narratives, instead of veering wildly between the two.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

He is also, as the English say, as thick as two short planks

Labour bigbrains: “being racist“, is bad, “Doing Racism“ however, is sensible broad appeal politics so no calling people racist! Grrr

A very different type of rogue to my Marlowe